Unlike most animals’ weapons — like claws, horns or teeth — snake venom is in a perpetual race with the defenses of their prey. Snakes upgrade their venom; rodents and amphibians upgrade their ...

The Metals Company wants to be the first firm to commercially mine the seafloor. The study it funded suggests that mining ...

A nuclear production facility in Washington state, dubbed the Hanford site, once forged the plutonium that reshaped the world ...

The British Government has named the 43 Americans who will be Marshall Scholars for 2026. They will begin their graduate ...

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The tiny pantheon known as the Asgard archaea bear traits that hint at how plants, animals and fungi emerged on Earth.

China’s intertidal shellfish mariculture provides critical food for the world’s most threatened shorebird flyway. A ...

Here's a look at scientific discoveries and breakthroughs that made headlines in 2025, spanning space, biology, ecology, and ...

A request for bids for possibly $4 billion worth of work at the Hanford nuclear site to grout and dispose of radioactive ...

With baseline data tracking 3,000 tonnes of polymetallic nodules at a depth of 4,280 metres, the study represents the largest ...

Hundreds of animals were recently discovered at the bottom of the eastern Pacific, but that was before a deep-sea mining operation churned through the seabed. Once the machinery arrived, biodiversity ...

Nematodes discovered in the Great Salt Lake belong to at least one species that is new to science, and possibly two. A ...